EDITORIALS

The latest editorials from local and syndicated columnists

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla. chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee — and he seems determined to make that fact a national embarrassment.Mr. Inhofe delivered a Senate floor speech about the "hysteria on global warming" last week with two conspicuous props. One was a blown-up photo of his family standing in front of an igloo labeled "AL GORE'S NEW HOME." The Inhofe clan constructed it following a 2010 "snowstorm that had been unprecedented, it set a record that year," Mr.

Anyone who has ever had to care for a loved one nearing death knows dying isn’t for the weak.Life doesn’t end in a moment. Most fatally ill people die by bits and pieces. The last months of terminal conditions are often...

The disastrous performance of metro Boston’s mass transit system this awful winter has forced quick changes at the top. The resignation of MBTA General Manager Beverly Scott has now been followed by the replacement of the head of the...

Israeli politics and American politics have been intertwined for many years. Jewish Americans have always made U.S.-Israeli relations a priority, reflected in their votes and their campaign contributions. Activists in both countries take a lively...

Congressional Republicans are so busy this week flirting with a partial government shutdown - their target is the Department of Homeland Security and its 240,000 employees - that they may have missed fresh evidence of how badly out of step with...

We don’t often agree with the Mass. Fiscal Alliance, a conservative advocacy group that targets Beacon Hill Democrats, and even less often with the Goldwater Institute, a more conservative Arizona think tank. But in their challenge to...

What's the dumbest idea of the season? Backed by the National Rifle Association, state legislators across the country have been pushing laws to let students carry concealed weapons on college campuses.What's the lame excuse? Gun-toting...

Seventy years after the liberation of concentration camps throughout Europe, those who endured what is arguably one of the darkest chapters in modern history are themselves beginning to fade into the past. Most of the remaining Holocaust...

Massachusetts supposedly has a full-time state Legislature, but House Speaker Robert DeLeo has been in no hurry to put his members to work. Maybe he wants to spare them the inconvenience of having to ride the MBTA or commuter rail to Beacon...

Even if you think that President Obama overstepped his authority by shielding more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation, with no assent from Congress, that does not mean that a federal judge should have license to...

In time of war, tending to critical allies is more important than scoring points with critics at home. So President Barack Obama is right to carefully distinguish between terrorists who happen to be Muslim and Muslims in general.The...